How to Use slugger in a Sentence

slugger

noun
  • Maybe that will be the swing that gets the Dodgers slugger out of a three-week slump, or maybe not.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2024
  • With the score tied between the Cubs and Yankees, the slugger failed to hit the ball not once but twice.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 May 2024
  • The Padres slugger already has four home runs in 27 at-bats against Urías.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Here’s a look back at some of the top moments from the slugger’s decade as an Oriole.
    Dan Gelston, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The union of this slugger and this franchise makes too much sense to sever.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Chicago Cubs heckling a slugger who was down in the count.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The New York Yankees slugger is running out of time to hit his 62nd homer.
    Stephen Hawkins, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The Twins appear close to getting one of their sluggers back.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 22 July 2024
  • In the second game of the day, against Houston, the Hawaiian slugger was hit by a pitch in her first at bat.
    Ryan Aber, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Make that two, with the Phillies signing slugger Kyle Schwarber to a four-year deal.
    USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2022
  • There are 26 Hall of Fame first basemen, and sluggers are more common at that spot.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • In the bottom of the eighth inning, Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez launched a home run to cut the Rangers’ lead to 5-4.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Joining the Guardians’ 40-man roster puts the young slugger on the fast track to a Cleveland debut some time in the next year or two.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The slugger also had three hits and a three-run homer Friday night to help New York win the opening game of the series.
    Kyle Hightower, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Know this: No front office in its right mind is going to trade for a slugger whose body gave up the ghost 24 months ago.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
  • Dubon’s throw reached the plate well before the slugger got there after Stanton glanced at the toss halfway down the third base line.
    Larry Fleisher, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Colome worked out of a two-on jam in the ninth by getting a fly from former Twins slugger Nelson Cruz.
    Mark Didtler, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The 32-year-old slugger’s voice broke ever so slightly.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The slugger, who had a ninth-inning homer in Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Rays, flied out to the edge of the warning track in center with two on to end the eighth.
    Mark Didtler, Hartford Courant, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The team’s top slugger, Aaron Judge, hit 62 home runs this season, breaking Roger Maris’ 61-year-old record.
    cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Counting the ways that the Padres’ signing of aging slugger Nelson Cruz makes sense is easy.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The slugger who's been criticized for poor defense in the past has been making big plays in left field, too.
    Kristie Rieken, ajc, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The 41-year-old slugger got on base three times, including a walk, and scored twice on Taylor’s homers.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Now at 36, a reunion would make a good fit for the veteran slugger on a team that reached the World Series last year.
    USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And for the next half hour, all eyes were on the Dodgers executives who have been leading the team’s pursuit of the 32-year-old slugger.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Greinke, who turned 38 last week, was seen as a slugger who could also pitch for much of his high school career.
    Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • On the first pitch of that at-bat, however, the slugger rolled over a center-cut sinker from Padres closer Robert Suarez.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The homer drew some cheers from the crowd at Camden Yards, and the 38-year-old slugger gave a little pump of his right fist when the ball cleared the wall in left-center field.
    Noah Trister, ajc, 12 Aug. 2021
  • A little league baseball game was full of major league emotion when a young slugger was surprised at the plate by his dad.
    Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Yankees slugger Aaron Judge got only two hits in 18 plate appearances against the pesky Royals.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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